Sorry, I run gdm on Springdale 8 and Alma 8. I'm not doing much work on
any RHEL 8 clone ATM, I prefer the longer support of C7! :-(
Martin
On 11/02/2021 10:26, Simon Matter wrote:> Thanks Martin, so the "Xfce" group definition in EPEL is
obviously broken.
>
> Looks like XFCE doesn't get much love in EL8. Do you or anyone else
have
> suggestions for a lightweight desktop environment to use on EL8 apart from
> XFCE? One which is supported well by EPEL?
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> I'm running XFCE under CentOS 8 as a VM under CentOS 7. I've
just had a
>> quick look and this is what I see (see attachment). You'll need to
view
>> it in a wide terminal.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Martin
>>
>> On 11/02/2021 09:24, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is anyone here running XFCE desktop on CentOS 8? If so, how did you
>>> install it?
>>>
>>> I just tried to install it from EPEL and this is what I got:
>>>
>>> # dnf group install Xfce
>>> Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:01 ago on Thu 11 Feb 2021
10:05:47
>>> CET.
>>> No match for group package "NetworkManager-gnome"
>>> No match for group package "thunar-archive-plugin"
>>>
>>> I'm unable to find packages for NetworkManager-gnome or
>>> thunar-archive-plugin anywhere in CentOS 8 or EPEL 8.
>>>
>>> Did I miss something?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Simon
>>>
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